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Posted by randyo on Sun Jan 3 16:36:10 2016, in response to Service Patterns, posted by BusRider on Sun Jan 3 14:00:14 2016. Depending on what you mean by “over the years,” I would say that the IRT service pattern of the early to mid 1950s was the most confusing and irregular. Bway Exps (1) ran V/C - N/Lts M - F except during midnight hours when it went to Flatbush. Weekends it went to Flatbush around the clock. Bway Lcls (1) ran 137 - So/Fy M - F from about 600 AM to midnight. 7 Av West Farms Exp (2) ran from Bx Pk (and from E-180 after the Bx Pk spur closed) to Flatbush from about 600 AM to midnight except on weekends when it went to N/Lts. Sometime in the mid 1950s, the south terminals for the Bway and West Farms exps were swapped and Bway ran to Flatbush 24/7 and West Farms ran to N/Lts during its hours of operation. 7 Av /Lenox Lcls (3) ran 145 St - So Fy during the same hours as the 137 St Lcls except that the Lenox service ran on weekends. Lex/Jerome exps (4) ran from Woodlawn to Utica from about during AM and PM rush M - F midday to Atlantic then post PM rush Woodlawn to So/Fy and midnights Woodlawn to N/Lts. Weekends Jerome ran on midnights the same as M - F but from 600A to late PMs ran Woodlawn to So/Fy. Lex Wh Pl Rd exps (5) ran from about 600 AM till about midnight M - F from 241 St to Utica AM and PM rush till midnights and Atlantic Av middays with selected trains going to Flatbush during rush hours. Weekends it ran from 241 St to Utica from about 600 AM till midnight. Midnights all 7 days, 145 St was closed and 7 Av Lenox service was provided by 7 Av lcls (2) between 241 St Wh Pl Rd and So/Fy which also replaced the Lex Wh Pl Rd which did not run on midnights. I’m not entirely familiar with the Pelham (6) service pattern other than that it ran pretty much the same as it does today between either Pelham or Parkchester and Bkln Br. I’m not sure whether it ran to So/Fy on midnights so I’m not sure whether the Bwlg Grn Shuttle ran midnights or not. I do know that during the late 1970s, till Lex service to So/Fy was eliminated completely, midnight 6s ran to So/Fy. Over the years the service patterns changed slightly with weekend and late PM W/L and Wh Pl Rd service swapping south terminals between Utica and So/Fy. It’s interesting to note that while there was no midday M-F Bkln exp service back then, there was post PM rush and weekend exp service in Bkln. After Feb, 1959, the west side IRT service pattern changed so that all Bway service ran lcl and all Lenox service both 145 St and E 180 ran exp with the midnight 241 St service providing midnight 7 Av exp service. Also during that period, the Dyre Av Line was connected to the Wh Pl Rd line and alt 7 Av exps ran to Dyre except on late PMs and midnights. At that time there was no midnight service to Dyre and a shuttle ran between Dyre and E 180 on late PMs. Sometime in 1965, the north terminals of the Lex and 7 Av Bronx services were swapped and 241 St became the full time terminal for the 7 Av (2) Exp and E 180 and Dyre became the full time terminals for the Lex (5). Also the Bkln services were changed and Woodlawn trains provided the Flatbush/Lex service. Over the years the south terminals of the 2 and 3 were swapped back and forth between N/Lts and Flatbush but those changes and some others are too numerous to mention here. |
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